WORLDCOMP Conference: International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data (ICOMP): April 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS

EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012

ICOMP'12
The 2012 International Conference on
Internet Computing

July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
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You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each paper. The proceedings of WORLDCOMP congress that ICOMP is part
of, enjoys a high number of citations; over 25,000 citations so far.

IMPORTANT DATES:

April 12, 2012 Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) and/or posters (2 pages)

April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days)

May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration

July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Image Processing,

Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12)

Those who have submitted papers during the months of January, February, and

March will receive decisions on their papers by the earlier announced dates.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O Social networks
O Next generation of internet + modeling and analysis
O Traffic models and statistics
O Metacomputing
O Electronic commerce and internet
O Resource management and location
O Design and analysis of internet protocols and engineering
O Web based computing
O Web mining
O Network architectures and network computing
O Network operating systems
O Quality of service
O Search engines
O Wide area consistency
O Internet and emerging technologies
O Internet security and trust
O Internet law and compliance
O Internet and scalability issues
O Internet delivery and applications
O Internet telephony
O Internet based decision support systems
O Internet and enterprise management
O Internet applications and appliances
O Internet banking systems
O Internet and video technologies
O Internetworking
O Denial of service issues
O Streaming methods
O Caching algorithms for the internet
O Grid based computing and internet tools
O Cooperative applications
O Tele-medical and other applications
O Mobile computing and the internet
O Agents for internet computing
O The WWW and intranets
O Digital libraries/digital image collections
O Languages for distributed programming
O Web interfaces to databases
O User-interface/multimedia/video/audio/user interaction
O The internet and Cloud computing
O Markup Languages/HTML/XML/VRML/...
O Java applications on internet
O Alternative web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, ...
O Server space/web server performance
O Web monitoring
O Web documents management
O Web caching methods
O Web site design and coordination
O Other aspects and applications relating to internet-based computing

O Workshop on Computer Games Design and Development:

- Managing gaming communities
- Augmented reality games
- Game architectures
- Special-purpose hardware for games
- Computer games and education
- Mobile and ubiquitous games
- Games and the web
- Making quality game textures
- Threading technologies for games
- Assessment of new generation of computer games
- The impact of art and culture in game design
- Game theory as it relates to internet
- Artificial intelligence and computer games
- Tools for game development on the internet
- Grid computing and games
- Massively multiplayer games and issues
- Social impact of computer games
- Wavelets technology for games
- Compression methods for games
- 3D hardware accelerators for games on the internet
- Audio-video communication tools for network 3D games
- Virtual actors
- Virtual world creation
- Background sound/music for games
- Holographic displays and games
- Computer graphics and virtual reality tools for games
- Innovative products for game development
- Interface technologies
- Case studies

SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by April 12, 2012 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures,
tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content
of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, ICOMP) that the paper is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE
style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review
process. In addition, all papers whose authors include a member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded
review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be
considered for discussion/panels).

Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this
point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work
(ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not
suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)

Proceedings of ICOMP will be published in printed conference books (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each
published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific
literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9%
are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - accessable
from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN
International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings
will also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the
proceedings in which ICOMP was part of (PDPTA and WORLDCOMP) was included in
these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for
indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books
will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers - these books will
be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming
journal special issues to be published after the conference.

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission
is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This
paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be
published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

ICOMP conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate
to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 80 countries.
The congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers
have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of
California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic
Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid
Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos
available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of WORLDCOMP is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.

WORLDCOMP Conference: International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data (ICOMP)

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline: The 2012 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012